By far the best post in this thread, since the reality here is more nuanced and multifaceted here than just "communism bad" or "communism not guilty". Even the word "communism" in a present-day Chinese context is a pretty loaded term considering the market reforms of Deng Xiaoping and the reopening of China to the global economy. They certainly have a one-party state that is at least "communist" on paper but not really in practice for enormous sectors of their economy that function more like capitalism on steroids and without meaningful regulation while existing alongside tightly state-controlled industries. The ideological contradictions inherent in this mixed economic model doesn't seem to bother Beijing, either, certainly not the billionaires like Jack Ma, the Jeff Bezos of China.
Another great post and a reminder that US multinational companies continued doing business with the Nazis even during the outbreak of WWII and the bombing of Britain. Never underestimate the power of greed, especially now that so many of these companies rely on China for so many things. There are too many variables at play for them to just sever themselves from China at a moment's notice, but gradually moving the manufacturing base back to US soil would be a good start. The problem is that the US federal government has to create a monetary incentive for that, if not a strict regulatory regime for it that benefits US companies and encourages them to hire American workers and build plants and factories over here, not over there.
It's the most realistic and yet not realistic enough considering my point above. Boycotting goods "Made in China" means you would have to boycott the multinational corporations that produce said goods in China, not just purely Chinese domestic companies. China is the factory of the world, so to speak, so even this approach would have to be conducted with the same kind of caution that you would use walking through a minefield. It is depressing, because there are so few options for really convincing China to stop this kind of ethnic cleaning of Uyghurs or other ethnic groups considered to be separatist ones.
LOL. "Communist" China. Where have you been in the past four decades, my friend? The Cold War is over, the Soviet Union has collapsed, nobody cares about Mao's Little Red Book (not even the Chinese), China has literal corporate billionaires, doesn't care about spreading communism to the Third World anymore, and truly communist nations like Cuba can be counted on one hand. You sound hysterical, like someone who's just seen a ghost, and that's what communism basically is in the 21st century, a relic of the previous century. The reason why we have so much trouble exacting punitive measures against China right now is because they have become so embedded into the global capitalist system and our multinational corporations have collectively decided it is cheaper to stage their manufacturing base in China rather than somewhere else, because that's the country where one out of every five people on the planet happen to live.
It's the same reason why we in the West have such a hard time even supporting the protesters in Hong Kong, because our business interests with China even in the age of COVID-19 which originated there are so strong that people are afraid to even criticize China online. That's certainly the case for celebrities like basketball players who have to worry about ruffling Chinese sensibilities and topics considered sensitive to the Chinese, such as the protests in Hong Kong.
Great post and good point about the Hui Muslims, who are most certainly not treated the same way as the Uyghurs due to their greater assimilation into Chinese culture and generally more accepting attitude of one-party rule. If the government of the PRC parroted some other authoritarian ideology than that of communism, then yes the Uyghurs would most likely still be oppressed in a similar fashion. To be honest this oppression of the Uyghurs already does have elements of ethnic Han Chinese nationalism, their communist one-party rule aside. If China had a standard liberal democracy or even something as socialist or left-wing as the Nordic model, it would probably be less oppressive but still would try to crush separatist sentiments among the Uyghurs. It just wouldn't be as extreme as the Qing dynasty when they literally exterminated the Mongolic Dzungar people of Xinjiang in the genocide of 1755-1758.